"If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on."

-- John Barrowman

“Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.”
“My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'”
“The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.”

Source : Harry Partch, Thomas McGeary (2000). “Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos”, p.174, University of Illinois Press
“We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!”
“I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest.”
“Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker.”
“The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with inflation edging up and a substantial current account deficit...people understandably feel more confident about their future than they've done for decades, but as a result they have been borrowing more and saving less...coming on top of a massive income investment boom, it's all been just a bit too much of a good thing.”

Source : Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, October 13, 1988.
“Art is what you can get away with.”

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